Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adj] or [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their leader Lord Lovat thought their safe return was due to ‘ the opposition being half-hearted or badly trained ’ and not to any skill on the raiders ' part . |
| 2 | If your window is small or awkwardly shaped , you could consider frosted glass . |
| 3 | Establishing the conditions under which plural reference is possible or even preferred has received relatively little attention until recently . |
| 4 | In much sociology women as a social group are invisible or inadequately represented : they take the insubstantial form of ghosts , shadows or stereotyped characters . |
| 5 | This is the problem of making such samples manageable where the relevant population is large or widely dispersed . |
| 6 | The fact that these understandings are incomplete or ineffectively explained arises because of our intermediate stage of knowledge . |
| 7 | The numbers of γ T cells in the spleen , lymph nodes and gut epithelium are similar or slightly increased in young mutant mice as compared to wild-type littermates ( an example for the spleen is shown in Fig. 6 b ) . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that regular maintenance was a statutory requirement and despite some successful legal actions to enforce the statutory provisions , regular dredging and attention to leaks were perfunctory or never carried out at all by canal companies owned by the railways . |
| 9 | In the next section we shall look at the position of theists and of atheists when they do not rule out the possibility of dialogue with one another on grounds of unintelligibility , whether the unintelligibility be God-given or humanly made . |
| 10 | Whether recovery sleep after two nights loss of sleep was restricted by excluding Stage 4 sleep or most of REM sleep seemed to make no difference — subjects returned to pre-sleep-loss levels of performance regardless of whether recovery sleep was uninterrupted or selectively deprived . |
| 11 | There is much argument as to how far different sexual traits are innate or socially conditioned . |
| 12 | How could the relationship between economic and ecological rationality be inverted or rather corrected ? |
| 13 | Catering entrepreneurs will have three choices : first , to take over an existing catering establishment as a going concern and adapt the premises as they see fit ; secondly , to convert already existing premises to be used as a catering establishment , such premises being derelict or presently used for some other purpose ; and thirdly , to have purpose-built premises designed by an architect and built to their specifications . |
| 14 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |